Erica "digifox" Kovac

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Software Engineer | Social Democrat | Pro-Nuclear, Pro-Growth | Transfemme, she/her | Opinions are mine, not my employer's

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Brian Beutler

What??? Using notes??? Time for the 25TH Amendment! Let’s have Congressional hearings, where no one ever uses notes! Side note: Trump doesn’t need notes. Know why? He just makes everything up. That’s definitely way more presidential!

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This is Shoreh Aghdashloo in The Expanse. Look at how determined she looks, how she carries off that red coat. She'll do great as Elaida in the Wheel of Time, I'm sure of it. She'd also do well as Cadsuane I think, but damn that's a fine fit for Elaida.

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The key here is that the far left decided they’d biggest enemy was the fascists, not the center-left. Hoping we can learn the same lesson here.

Well France apparently just collabed between everyone else to kick a far right party out of the chance to take power, it can be done if enough people want it to be, folks

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As office owners get serious about converting buildings to residential, the city and state offer up big incentives to make projects feasible.

Converting Boston’s offices to housing is tricky, but it’s starting to happenwww.wbur.org Advocates say conversions could kill two birds with one stone, warding off vacancies while adding desperately needed housing.

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"Thank you for your application to be a furry. The grand conclave of sex priests will give it due consideration. In the meantime, here are your training wolf ears to be worn at all times during the probationary period. You'll find necessary information and regulations in the HandbUwUk of Depravity."

Brain karate in the mind palace.

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DO👏🏻NOT👏🏻DO👏🏻THIS👏🏻. If I am ever interested in getting a commission from you I will reach out! I love genuine conversation but do not slide into my DMs with small chit chat leading up to weaseling in a commission. This is literally the 6th time in 48 hours! I love GENUINE convos. DM me for those.

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Google “Massachusetts crisis pregnancy” and this link pops up. It’s part of a statewide campaign, including public signage (highway billboards!), urging people to avoid crisis pregnancy/anti-abortion centers. The Commonwealth is not fucking around with this.

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By @nytimes.com, I only paid for the cooking part of the site and while I'll miss Melissa Clark, you're a threat to democracy.

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Of course thats your contention. Youre a 1st year programmer. You just got finished writin some REST backend, node.js probably. Youre gonna be convinced of that til next month you get to Rob Pike and then youre gonna be talkin about goroutines and message passing and how concurrency isnt parallelism

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Is there any lesson to be taken from the French moderate liberal and left earnestly trying to cooperate and help one another defeat a reactionary threat to democracy? Yes there is, until anyone one degree off from my personal political leanings pisses me off over anything, and I mean anything.

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I would happily put my life's savings on this not happening, especially if you're giving me 6/4 odds

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see this is the kind of thing I'm talking about with packaging the French election for US voters. it's just wrong---blocking of the right came through only because the Neoliberal party and the Left joined forces, not because the Left coalition defeated the Neoliberal bloc

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Gerry Doyle

also it can't be overstated how much smaller the sun appears on mars than it does on earth here is an actual martian sunset

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guess what has an onboard nuclear power source and no solar panels

Today's Sunrise from #Mars by Curiosity Rover.

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Joshua J. Friedman

Curiosity doesn’t have solar panels. Either it’s a really weird composite of something else (it’s absolutely not what the OP is claiming it is) or it’s AI generated.

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both in the UK and in france, the NYT has covered the lack of "absolute majority" as being equivalent to gridlock, which, like, sort of *is* the case in the united states because our congressional structure is stupid as balls, but is not actually the case everywhere

Honestly, what kind of bananas frame this story like this? Is shit serious or not, fucken freaks?

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I’m sorry, this is more than “a caveat,” it’s actually the whole story.

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God I hate this shit. You're LIVING in the United States, you assholes. You don't get to decide that it's the finale. It's YOUR job to see that it isn't. It's all of our job. Save your plausibly deniable ironic defeatism for your group chat.

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I think this version is a bit more accurate. Their stated goal is usually just to lose, and they often succeed at doing that.

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Very glad that Byuu/Near’s history has been properly documented in a Wiki article, including sources. R.I.P. dear friend, your legacy is huge for the SNES dev & emu scene. Those that went after you deserve the worst karma for the rest of their lifespan. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_(p...

Near (programmer) - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

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utopia deferred

Any time I see people sneeringly talk about how stupid immigrants are for wanting to be here because America is such an evil country I want to make them sit down and talk to an immigrant face-to-face. Or just punch them.

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What really annoys me besides the irresponsibility of the political moment is that normally when I’m sick of Bluesky I can tab over to the mainstream news and read about things (often below the front page/fold stories about random things) that don’t come up here But now everywhere is just BIDEN OLD

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Rev. Magdalen

See I actually HAVE a family member with dementia so I know what it looks like. It's not getting stuck on a consonant like Biden did at the start of the debate.

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All of the people indulging in these fantasy Democratic primary scenarios think that people vote reflexively because it’s what they themselves do; they don’t realize that turnout is a product of hard work. Unseen, unheralded work. By unseen, unheralded people.

I don’t know why they think pissing off the door-knockers and canvassing power of the party will end well, but these people don’t understand what they refuse to see

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Biden displays pretty obvious signs of normal aging, and my biggest takeaway from the past week and a half of discourse is that a lot of people will strongarming the family doctor for a fraudulent diagnosis to get a chunk of the estate early.

Maybe people just don’t know what dementia is? When the Dalai Lama did something gross and shocking in full on public, seemingly oblivious to the judgment of others — after which we basically never saw him again — I thought that sounded like actual dementia, but people insisted no!

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Brittany Wilson

Several people have just outright said they think every old person gets dementia and im legit angry about it

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Reasons it's good to not let your country turn into an autocratic shithole if you can avoid it

"The latest estimates suggest that roughly 2% of all Russian men aged between 20 and 50 may have been either killed or severely wounded in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war." Jesus

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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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Maybe it's time that the @nytimes.com should step aside for a younger, fitter, more coherent newspaper.